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I consider myself 40 percent Catholic and 60 percent Baptist … but I’m in favor of every religion, with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he’s got coming to him.

Earl Kemp Long (1895-1960) American politician, orator.
(Attributed)

Quoted in The New Yorker (4 Jun 1960)

Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk. Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile. Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.

Earl Kemp Long (1895-1960) American politician, orator.
(Attributed)